Quotes About Foresight

One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Man's best friend is a really good plan!

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Take care of the cojones and the frijoles will take care of themselves. Try to have getaway money - but don't be fanatic about it.

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.